The story of the land expeditions, though full of interest, is foreign to the purpose of this work, and must be passed over with the mere note that Charles F. Hall, a Cincinnati journalist, in 1868-69, and Lieutenant Schwatka, and W.H. gilder in 1878-79 fought their way northward to the path followed by the English explorer, found many relics of his expedition, and from the Esquimaux gathered indisputable evidence of his fate.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
This one was a wood-carver, that one a gilder.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
When Richard Watson gilder tried to voice the plea of the young doubter, puzzled, perplexed and suffering from the great array of apparently conflicting facts and most of all from his own failure to win out over the temptations that swept over him he said: Thou Christ, my soul is hurt and bruised!
"The Girl and Her Religion"
Margaret Slattery